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Nantucket Limericks- Happy Thanksgiving

I enjoy limericks enormously; the potential for lunacy within a tightly defined format is a challenge and a delight. I was looking at a poem suitable for Thanksgiving but found the following instead. To make a tenuous link, I am thankful because it reminds me of a fabulous trip to Martha's Vineyard when I was 17, my Grandfather who had a weakness for dreadful puns and, most importantly, that I am neither Nan or her father! Without further ado... There Once was a Man from Nantucket - Anonymous There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket, But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

Kapuso Foundation's Operation Bayanihan - Helping the Philippines to recover

The Kapuso Foundation does incredible on the ground work in the Philippines and have been highly praised by people we have met in Hong Kong who are from Leyte. They are embarking on a massive fundraising appeal in the wake of Super Hurricane Yolanda. Kapuso Foundation's Operation Bayanihan | GMANetwork.com - Foundation - Multimedia

Aston Martin Owners Club Hong Kong Centenary Celebrations - LifestyleAsia Hong Kong

Aston Martin Owners Club Hong Kong Centenary Celebrations - LifestyleAsia Hong Kong

For the Glorious Few - High Flight by John Gillespe McGee

The closer we get to Remembrance Day, the more I reflect on the sacrifice made by so many people to guard our freedoms. The following is a glorious poem describing the exhilaration of flying. Unmentioned is the incredible danger these young pilots placed them in. Their bravery is summed up in Churchill's epigram following the Battle of Britain: "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" High Flight  Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;  Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth  of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things  You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung  High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,  I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung  My eager craft through footless halls of air....  Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue  I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.  Where never lark, or even eagle flew —  An